I’m finding it hard to find any useful statistics for sentencing on the specific crime he did. Do you have any way to back up that claim about the penalty being disproportionate? All I can find is sentencing guidelines that seem to be pretty much written into the law so those would apply to everyone.
A 1990 Justice Department studynoted how difficult it was to bring cases against people who falsely answer questions on the form, especially because there is no paper trail for drug abusers like there is for felons.
It seems like it’s just a difficult crime to prove and Hunter went out of his way to produce damning evidence. That doesn’t feel unfair to me.
Worth noting that the sentencing has a very wide rsnge of punishments, but prosecutions are rarely pursued at all (he hasn’t been found guilty yet shu obviously he hasn’t been sentenced, nor as far as I’m aware has the prosecution indicated what sentence they would hypothetically pursue).
I’m finding it hard to find any useful statistics for sentencing on the specific crime he did. Do you have any way to back up that claim about the penalty being disproportionate? All I can find is sentencing guidelines that seem to be pretty much written into the law so those would apply to everyone.
https://www.ncja.org/crimeandjusticenews/few-prosecutions-for-lying-on-atf-gun-purchase-form
It seems like it’s just a difficult crime to prove and Hunter went out of his way to produce damning evidence. That doesn’t feel unfair to me.
Worth noting that the sentencing has a very wide rsnge of punishments, but prosecutions are rarely pursued at all (he hasn’t been found guilty yet shu obviously he hasn’t been sentenced, nor as far as I’m aware has the prosecution indicated what sentence they would hypothetically pursue).